Everyone at some point in their life is guilty of playing the Game of School. I am very guilty of playing the game because it's so easy to play. After reading this passage, and even before reading this passage, I knew school was a game, and that a lot of the really "smart" kids were actually just really good at playing the game. One thing that I want to address is that it is not the student's fault for playing this game when it's so tempting. The hard part about this game is that a student doesn't fully learn the things the teacher is teaching which is unfortunate for both the student and the teacher. Obviously is a student doesn't learn the material it hurts them in the long run. However, it also hurts the teacher because in a sense they aren't doing their job, which is to help educate students. The other unfortunate aspect of the game is that it's so easy to play. All students have different learning styles and different strengths. In the article it talked about how the students read books and assigned a reader so they didn't all have to read. I can recall numerous times when I did this in school. It was the easiest and FASTEST way to get things done. I want to emphasize the pace of it because that's why the students play the game. Especially the older a student gets, like in high school, it's hard to be a well rounded student, the one that gets good grades, is involved in sports and extracurriculars and have a social life. There comes a point in a students life where they need to balance out all of their activities, so they try to get everything done fast in order to have all these different aspects of their life. The Game of School is truly unfortunate for everyone involved. The students and the teacher must change their mindset in order to get rid of this game. Even though I played the game all throughout my school experience so far, and I do think there are benefits to it, I think that it must be stopped because students needs to actually learn and retain the information that they're learning.